STOLE CATTLE TO BUY CAR
Farm Manager Sent To Prison (New Zealand Press Association) GISBORNE. May 1. When a £2OOO modern motorcar was put up for sale. Aperahama Whangapirita, a Ruatoria farm manager, bought it to boost his local prestige, and when he needed money to keep up the payments he resorted to cattle stealing. Detective R. H. Harding told Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M., when Whangapirita pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court at Ruatoria to eight charges of cattle s'ealing from Totaranui A II block, of which he was manager. Married, with six children. Whangapirita was convicted and sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years’ probation, on condition that he makes restitution of £945 10s, the value of the stolen cattle. Whangapirita, one of 29 shareholders in Totaranui A II block, holds 40 per cent, of the shares and the Magistrate took this into consideration when passing sentence. The offences. involving 59 cattle, took place between May 1, 1957, anjd July 2, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29193, 2 May 1960, Page 18
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